Staring at Me: a Camp Camp max x reader

Chapter 2.

(edited, July 24 2021)
(edited again July 26, 2022👹👹🕺🏻)

I had to clean the animal's piss from the floor, while Stephanie showered and cried. her sobs carried through the whole cabin and gave me a headache. including with all her yelling. Gwen had came in and took the animal away telling me it was a Platypus, the camp's mascot.

She held her like it was nothing while she scolded Stephanie for being so god damn loud so late at night. She didn't care, but it didn't matter because Gwen just kept going on with her lecture.

After that, Stephanie took the shower and i cleaned. When she got out of the shower already dressed in her pajamas, and got to work on setting her side of the room up. Apparently the whole day she was sucking the face off of some guy who did "magic".
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Waking up to some stupid ass horn, my hair was sprawled around my pillow, an arm hanging off the bed, and a leg hanging off the other side. The blanket was tucked under me, and only covered the lower half of my body. I sat up slowly, looking around the cabin. Stephanie's bed was neatly made with clothes laid on the sheets nicely. Clearly she had taken them out to change into.

Stephanie came out of the bathroom with a white towel wrapped around her and her straight black hair soaked with water, some dripping from her hair and onto the floor.

Stephanie looked at me, judging me. "ew, take a shower. i bet you stink."

"at least i don't smell like a prissy bitch" i sighed and got out of the bed. I put my shoes on and went to my bag, taking out my clothes that i would need. After i grabbed a simple pair of shorts, and an undershirt, along with the clothes you wear underneath i went to the bathroom.

"i used all the hot water" Stephanie smirked.

"Stephanie, i don't care." I yawned and started a cold shower. I didn't mind, because it was a hot day and i was covered in sweat. So a nice cold shower would be nice, to cool me off.

"Byyyeeeeeee, i'm going to eat" Stephanie yelled on her way out. I lousily wave goodbye to her as i close the door and start taking my clothes off for my shower.
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as i finished and was putting my clothes on. i heard someone walk in, the door closing behind them. I just thought it would be Stephanie as usual since, i'm sure, camp doesn't have fancy food.
"do not complain, i swear" i said as i dried my hair with my towel.

no one was there. i only heard the towel ruffling my damp hair and some water leaking from the head of the shower, in the bathroom. Occasional kids screaming and laughing outside, maybe a bird chirping here and there. A hesitant "hello?" escaped my lips as i looked around. I looked down to see that platypus on the ground, staring at me with no look in its eyes.

"how the hell did you get in here?" i ask myself, it was a rhetorical question, the animal obviously couldn't answer my question.

"it followed me in" Gwen said, she looked around the cabin, her eyes landing upon Stephanie's side of the room. The terror and disgust on her face kinda looked like she just witnessed a murder, the bright and girly colors were probably going make her brain go into failure. "it's so... uhm. Pretty." She choked out.

"she's not here you don't have to be nice" I sighed, folding the towel over the bed and grabbing an hair tie to lazily put my hair into a "ponytail".

"i know i know, but she can like basically hear us from a mile away. she's one fucking creepy ass bitch" she said under her breath.

"anyway, happy birthday. I know you'd rather be with mom, and not here at this shitty camp, to celebrate. But, i guess i could try to fucking do something for you?"

"Awh, Gwen. You care!" i joke, and hug her side.

She patted my side and pulled away, dusting herself off, almost like she just bumped into a dusty cobweb.
"of course i do. i just,, feel bad. i cold tell you we're thinking about it, you were sulking the entire car ride yesterday." she bit her bottom lip, she was clearly thinking about saying something that went against her better judgement.

"i uhm, if you don't want to do anything today it's cool. i'll leave you be, since this would be your first birthday away from dad, and mom."

"C'mon Gwen... did you really have to?" i stop what i was doing and look over at her. She had this rare look of kindness in her eyes. Sighing i sit on the bed. "it's not that, it's just, never-mind. it's nice being here with you, don't really see of you too much"

Gwen crossed her arms and her lips pressed into a thin line. "Scared about graduation and college?" she paused, thinking of her words carefully. "Mom will be okay."

"no, it's not that. Mom was upset to be alone. She's still processing the divorce, s-she-she's overworking herself to the bone" I list as i pause taking clothes out of the drawer that was in the cabin. It wasn't anything fancy, just dark wood and had 6 separate drawers. "maybe college and graduation too, because then she'll be lonely."

"your mom will be fine" Gwen sighs, leaning on the wall.

"maybe?.. i don't know, she's mom. she survives with us, we're her life. dad was part of her life and he sucked that part of her - outta her." i try to calm down. "And Stephanie is being an asshole to mom like she's the reason why they got divorced! She's so blindsighted by dad that she doesn't even see what he did to her! and-and she's breaking mom's heart!" I slam clothes onto the messy bed, only a muddled noise from the sheets and the clothes banging against one another.

"Calm down |Name|."

I sigh and look down, the platypus was staring at me no emotion in her eyes. i shudder.
"Don't worry too much, you're too young to be stressing like this. When mom needs you, you'll be there for her. you can always visit her when you're in college. and she'll always check up on you. You just need to relax, spend the summer for you. or else you'll turn out like me." she smiled gently.

"give it time."